Tag Archives: Phishing

URL shortening services provide a short link in place of a long URL. Attackers sometimes use these services to mask the URL of a malicious destination, making it harder for a person to detect a link that they shouldn’t click on. A group from the university of Ottawa and IBM collected 300 thousand malicious …

The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre produces regular bulletins to help Canadians to better protect themselves against fraud. Phishing scams are traditionally associated with misleading and deceptive emails, falsely claiming to be from a legitimate organization such as a financial institution, business or Government agency in an attempt to have the consumer surrender private and personal information. Scammers …

Presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop, 2017 October Spam detection software can use both handcrafted rules and machine learning techniques. At ZEROSPAM we are aiming at reducing the need to create or edit rules manually to adapt to constantly evolving email-borne threats. At the same time, the performance of our machine learning tools could be improved …

The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has released its latest bulletin on the subject of Text Messaging Scams, sometimes referred to as SMSishing. Find the English and French versions of the bulletin at the link below. 2017-09-15_Text_Messages_EN 2017-09-15_Text_Messages_FR “Text messaging scams occur when scammers use deceptive text messages to lure consumers into providing personal or financial …